"Finally": Jacinda Ardern announces wedding date
New Zealand Prime Minister has finally announced when she's getting married to her fiance Clarke Gayford after two and a half years of engagement.
Ardern, 40, revealed on Coast Radio that the happy couple would finally get married.
“We have finally got a date. Finally,” she joked, but declined to reveal the specific date, hinting it would be "this coming summer".
“When I say we’ve got a date, that doesn’t mean we’ve told anyone yet. I feel like we should probably put some invites out!”
Ardern usually keeps a tight lid on her private life, declining all internationally-based media requests and only doing a few Australian media appearances about the trans-Tasman travel bubble.
She spoke to Kiwi magazine Thrive about how much her fiance helps her with their daughter Neve.
“Thank God Clarke is a morning person,” Ardern said to Thrive.
“I don’t think I’ve talked about this before but he has consistently been the night and morning person for our daughter.
“He will bring me a cup of tea every morning without fail. Which sounds like its a little thing but it’s not.
“He’ll make me breakfast if I’m in a rush. He checks I’ve eaten before I’ve gone out the door and he checks in on my day.
“He knows the bits I find hard and he’ll send a nice little text before I go into it. He’s always thinking of me.”
Gayford is a television and radio personality who hosts the fishing program Fish of The Day and is Neve's primary caregiver as mum Ardern runs New Zealand.